Andrew LevackEngenderHealth, USACo-Chair of the Programme Sub-CommitteeAndrew Levack is a leading expert on prevention efforts that reach men and boys. Andrew is the former director of EngenderHealth global MenAs Partners programme and continues to serve as a senior technical advisor for EngenderHealth’s projects within the United States. His work focuses on redefining negative constructs of masculinity and promoting the constructive role fathers can play in the lives of their children and families. Andrew is also the founding member of MenEngage. He sits on the United Nations Secretary General’s Network of Men Leaders as part of the UN campaign to end violence against women.

Jashodhara DasguptaSAHAYOG, IndiaCo-Chair of the Programme Sub-CommitteeJashodhara Dasgupta is currently the coordinator of SAHAYOG (India). She is on the Steering Committee of civil society platforms such as the National Alliance on Maternal Health and Human Rights (India), the Women’s Health and Rights Advocacy Partnership South Asia and the International Initiative on Maternal Mortality and Human Rights. She has been working since 1986 with rural women’s health and gender issues, sexual and reproductive rights and health, maternal health and human rights, as well as in using participatory methodologies. Her current work includes policy advocacy, research and anchoring civil society platforms working for reproductive rights.

Abhijit DasCentre For Health And Social Justice (CHSJ), IndiaAbhijit Das is Director of Centre for Health and Social Justice (CHSJ) a policy research and advocacy institution around health and human rights and men and gender equality in India. He is also a Clinical Assistant Professor at the Department of Global Health, at the University of Washington in Seattle USA. He has been actively advocating engaging men within a gender equality framework and working extensively with men in different states of India, involving them on gender issues at the family level like domestic violence, girl’s education, participation in domestic work, early marriage, dowry and so on and at the gender issues at the public level like women’s participation in panchayats, eve-teasing and sexual harassment, and implementation of the law on domestic violence. He has been involved in setting up MASVAW (Men’s Action for Stopping Violence Against Women) a network of men working on gender equality and responding to the issue of violence against women in India as well as a founder of FEM (Forum to Engage Men).

Alan GreigIndependent Consultant, UKAlan Greig has worked for over ten years as a consultant with community-based organizations and activist formations in sub-Saharan Africa, South and South-East Asia and the USA on the links between personal and political violence. Alan develops, pilots and revises curricula and training materials that better equip organizations to implement their programs on gender, health and violence. He has documented promising practices in relation to such programs and created innovative digital media tools to support such work. He has authored toolkits on gender, sexuality and HIV/AIDS and on developing HIV/AIDS work with drug users.

Benno de KeijzerSalud Y Género, MexicoBenno de Keijzer is based in Mexico and is an MD with a Master’s Degree in Social Anthropology and a Doctorate in Community Mental Health. He is founder and current coordinator of Salud y Género (Mexico) and the Program H initiative. A teacher and international consultant in themes related to gender, masculinities, health and community work, in several local and national educational institutions, he is currently Fellow in Reproductive Health and Rights with the Open Society Institute and Columbia University.

Dean PeacockSonké Gender Justice Network, South AfricaDean Peacock is co-founder and co-director of the Sonke Gender Justice Network, a South African NGO working across Southern Africa on issues related to gender, HIV and AIDS and human rights - especially through the implementation of its One Man Can Campaign. Dean currently serves on the UNAIDS Global Task Force on Women, Girls, Gender Equality and HIV, and the UNDP Expert Group developing the Gender Guidance for National AIDS Responses. In addition to his work at Sonke Gender Justice, he is co-founder and co-chair of the MenEngage Alliance and is a part-time member of the University of California at Los Angeles Program in Global Health.

Ena SinghUNFPA, IndiaEna Singh serves as Assistant Representative of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in India. Ena brings three decades of strategic leadership experience on issues related to population and development, sexual and reproductive health service strengthening and gender mainstreaming in reproductive health and population programmes. Ena is a strong advocate for addressing the issue of masculinization of child sex ratios and prevention of sex selection in India. Ena is a fellow of the Gates-Packard funded Population Leadership Programme of the University of Washington in Seattle, USA

Gary BarkerPromundo, USAGary Barker, is International Director of Promundo-DC, that works locally, nationally and internationally to promote gender equity and to reduce violence against children, women and youth. He has carried out research on men, violence, gender, health and conflict in Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa and Asia, and co-authored numerous training materials, including the Program H series for working with young men to promote gender equality and reduce violence against women. He has served as a consultant to the World Bank, the International Rescue Committee, UNDP, WHO, UNAIDS, UNFPA, UNICEF, USAID, the UN Commission on the Status of Women on issues related to gender, engaging men, health promotion and violence prevention.

Ghida AnaniABAAD-Resource Center for Gender Equality, LebanonFounder and Director of ABAAD-Resource Center for Gender Equality, Lebanon, from 2011 onwards. Also worked as a manager of the Engaging Men in EVAW Program and Head of the Child Sexual Abuse Unit (2005 -11), KAFA (enough) Violence and Exploitation.

Habibur RahamanProgram Head, Gender Justice and Diversity, BRAC, BangladeshHabibur Rahman has started his journey with BRAC from January 2013. He works to integrate gender mainstreaming providing advice and support at the national and international level. He is enthusiastically involved in the movement for women’s human rights in Bangladesh. He is also an active founder member of Men Engagement Network from Bangladesh.In the field of Masculinities and Men Engagement he is actively involved in preparing training manuals, modules and communication materials. He is now closely working with Department of Women and Gender Studies, University of Dhaka as a facilitator at different lecture series and workshops on the subject of Masculinities and Engaging Men and Boys. He is one of the premier gender and diversity experts in Bangladesh working in this sector for over 16 years. Previously he has worked as a Gender Equity and Diversity Advisor in CARE Bangladesh. His key areas of expertise are gender and diversity framework analysis, application and institutionalization; grievance management; capacity building, behavior change & communication material development and networking. He holds a postgraduate degree in Political Science from University of Dhaka, Bangladesh in 1985.

James LangPartners For Prevention, UKJames Lang is the Programme Coordinator for P4P (Partners for Prevention). As a development practitioner, trainer and author with special interests in gender-based violence prevention and engaging men and boys in working towards gender equality, James previously served as the UNDP’s Regional Gender Programme Advisor, also in the Asia-Pacific region. Prior to that, James worked for UNDP in Laos and Sri Lanka, the Family Violence Prevention Fund in San Francisco, and Oxfam Great Britain in the UK. He has published numerous articles, facilitated online discussions and edited books on the topics of poverty, men and gender, gender-based violence prevention and other development issues.

Jens Van TrichtInternational gender and masculinity expert, member MenEngage, NetherlandsInternational gender and masculinity expert and independent consultant, supporting professionals working with men and boys in Amsterdam. Jens has worked with international peace builders and teenage school boys on the issue of masculinity and violence, with policemen on the role of men in diversity policy, and with younger and older men on vulnerability and strength. As a consultant, he has organized meetings about men and gender justice for many different organizations, focussing on the connections between men and women, the personal and the political, and the local and the global.

Jerker EdstromInstitute Of Development Studies (IDS), Brighton, UKA 20 year career in international development with 17 years work experience in HIV/AIDS, Sexual and Reproductive Health, Population, Development, Gender and Poverty in a range of development organisations and developing countries. Jerker’s areas of expertise include strong technical skills in HIV/AIDS, sexual and reproductive health and rights; strategic planning and programme development; organisational management, team building and development; multi- faceted rapid assessment and response design methodology; inter-disciplinary research synthesis and evidenced-based policy formulation; proposal development and writing; and multidisciplinary post-graduate training in demography, development economics, basic epidemiology, health planning, project planning, statistical analysis and research methodology.

Laxman BelbaseSave The Children, NepalLaxman Belbase works at Save the Children, in Kathmandu, Nepal. Active member of development community for the last 10 years, Laxman advocates around human rights of children and women. He has good understanding on child rights-based programming and socio-economic pillars of holistic and sustainable development and strategic visioning for national programs/offices, partners’ regional and global programs, especially on child protection, health and gender mainstreaming. Laxman works around engaging boys and young men in creating safe spaces for children, women and themselves at community level and generate community mobilisation to address larger human rights issues of women and children, including addressing masculinities and violence prevention.

Lena KarlssonSave the Children, SwedenLena Karlsson is a business economist (organizational development) with a Master's Degree in Development Studies and with a significant global experience in human rights, children's rights, gender and child protection. Her professional experience consists of 20 years of progressively responsible positions in Europe, Africa and Asia, for UN agencies and international NGOs on programming, management, fundraising, coordination, organizational development, research, community mobilization, advocacy, communication and capacity building.

Leyla SharafiUNFPA, USATechnical Specialist in UNFPA on Culture, Gender Equality and Human Rights. Prior to joining UNFPA, Leyla worked for the UN Development Fund for Women. She specializes in and manages global projects pertaining to engaging men and boys in gender equality.

Marisa Viana da SilvaThe Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID)Marisa is Young Feminist Activism Manager in AWID. Marisa has been a youth rights and environmental social justice advocate for more than 12 years. Marisa’s commitment and dedication to the empowerment of young women and gender equality is deeply rooted in her experiences growing up in a resource-poor area of the Amazon where discrimination and violence against women continues to be the norm. Marisa is a Brush Foundation Fellow for her commitment and leadership in the field of reproductive health and a co-founder of the Movement of Adolescents and Youth in Positive Causes - MACAP - a volunteer based youth-led organization promoting the health and rights of adolescents and young people in Amazonas.

Michael FloodSenior Lecturer in Sociology, University of Wollongong, AustraliaDr Michael Flood is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology in University of Wollongong, Australia. His research agenda focuses on gender, sexuality, and interpersonal violence. He conducts research on the organisation of heterosexual men’s social and sexual lives and relations and more widely on gender and sexual relations – their social organisation and meaning, shifts in these, and efforts to change them. Dr Flood’s research at present is focused in particular on interpersonal violence and its prevention, particularly with reference to men and masculinities. He is the lead editor of an international encyclopedia on men and masculinities (Routledge), he has presented invited papers at international gatherings held at the United Nations (New York) and the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) (Bangkok).

Michael KimmelProfessor of Sociology, State University of New York, Stony Brook, USAMichael
Kimmel is among the world’s leading experts on men and masculinity.
Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York at Stony
Brook, USA, he has authored/edited several books on the topic. He has
lectured at more than 200 colleges and universities and consults with
corporations, NGOs and public-sector organizations all over the world on
gender equity issues, including work-family balance, reducing workplace
discrimination and promoting diversity. He has consulted with all the
Ministries for Gender Equality in the Nordic countries and has delivered
the International Women’s Day lecture at the European Parliament, the
Council of Europe, the European Commission and the European Space
Agency.

Oswaldo MontoyaMenEngage Alliance Global, USAOswaldo
Montoya is the MenEngage Global Coordinator. He is a Nicaraguan
psychologist and one of the founders of the Men's Group Against Violence
in Managua, which was the first men's group of this kind in Central
America. For over twenty years he has served as an educator, activist,
program officer, researcher, consultant and counsellor engaging men and
boys in the efforts to build a more gender equitable society free from
violence and discrimination. Oswaldo worked with Puntos de Encuentro, a
feminist organisation in Nicaragua, with Save the Children and with
Emerge (in Cambridge, Massachusetts), providing counselling to Latino
men who engage in violence.

Peter Douglas WellerCariMAN, Republic of Trinidad and TobagoDr. Weller is chairman of CariMAN, the Caribbean Male Action Network, which is a regional not-for-profit organisation, registered under the jurisdiction of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. CariMAN’s work is geared towards increasing the number of men and men’s organizations engaged in the promotion of social justice including bringing to an end all forms of violence including violence against women, children and men.

Sanjay SrivastavaProfessor of Sociology, Institute of Economic Growth, IndiaDr.
Sanjay Srivastava is a professor of Sociology at the Institute of
Economic Growth, Delhi. He has authored several key publications on
issues of sexuality, modernity, class, urbanism, masculinity, violence,
post colonialism, culture, etc. He is on the editorial board of several
journals including being Co-editor to Contributions to Indian Sociology,
Member, Editorial Board,Routledge InternationalEncyclopaedia of Men and
Masculinities and Member, Editorial Committee,Culture, Society and
Masculinities. Dr. Srivastava has been associated with several civil
society organisations and providing support in various capacities on
their gender programmes. He is also a member of is a member of South
Asian Network to Address Masculinities (SANAM).

Suneeta DharJAGORI, IndiaSuneeta
Dhar currently serves as director of JAGORI (India), a well-known
feminist resource and training centre in New Delhi. A passionate
advocate of women’s rights and active in the women’s movement throughout
India and South Asia, she has worked on a wide range of issues
including ending violence against women and its intersections with HIV,
adult and popular education, gender training and organizational
development, and peace and development.